Roller-bearing.



H. HESS.

ROLLER BEARING.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.13, 1909.

1,096,530, Patented May 12, 1914.

o vb cwwoe/a; 5W0 1 0% ft Al O Pennsylvania, have invented certain new PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE HESS-BRIGHT MANU- i-rnnmr nnss, or wAwA.

FACTURING- COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAlVAIR-E.

ROLLER-BEARING.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Application filed reebruar 'la. woo. serial No. 477.737.

To all whom it 171 (o concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY Hess, a citizen of the United States, residing; at awn, in the county of Delaware and State of and useful. Improvements in Roller-Bearings, of WhICll the following is a specificatlon, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to roller hearings. and more particularly to that class thereof designed also to sustain or transmit end thrust from the connected parts. In the present case it is shown as applied to hearings of a type known in the art and illustrated for instance in the U. S. Letters Patcut to C. S. Lockwood, No. 813,905, February 27th, 1906. In the Letters Patent mentioned, the rollers are of the well known conical form and are provided at their ends with angularly-inclined crowns or apices. which latter are designed to sustain or transmit the end thrust; The rollers are an ranged in double series and so that the crowns or apices of one series alout and roll in contact with the crowns or apices of the other series. In practice, due to slight ir-- regularities in the shape or size of the rollers or of the raceway wherein they travch such irregnhu'ities arising; either from defects in original construction or from suhseipient wear. it often happens that the exact alinoment of the rollers lost. and consequently that the friction and resistance in the hear ing; is largely increased therein). and that the dui'ahilitv and life of the parts are l'urther impaired. In the Inttcxs Patent mentioned, a cage is employed to guide the rolls and to hold their abutting ends in proper contact,

It is the. purpose of my invention to oh time the disai'lvanl'ages involved. and to prevent entirely the end contact ol' the rolls, and to this end I provide the cage with a portion or element interposed hetwern the y ends of the respective sets of rollers and in addition provide one or the other oil the rats inp; members with abutnients tor the ends o I' the rollers. so that the end thrust thereof is i horne or transmitted partly by the interposed cage element and partly by the casing member.

I have shown my invention as applied to a type of bearing illustrating it in a preferred form, but it is to be understood that I. 1

do not confine my invention to this particular type. and ohviously other forms mav be devised to effect the same result. Thus: the rollers may he conical or cylindrical; they may he angularly arranged or not; and the ends thereof may he angularlv inclined in any desired manner, either as cones or the trnsta of cones, or as sections of spheres, or otherwise.

Generally speaking, I desire it to be understood that my invention is not limited to any specific form or arrangement of parts, except in so far as such limitations are specilied in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure l is a side view of a hearing embodying my invenlion; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof.

Referring to the drawings, the bearing is shown as composed of two outer casing members A and A, and an inner using member ll. The outer casing elements ll. and .r' are formed respectively with inclined surfaces o and it", and the inner casing member B with inclined surfaces Z) and 1), between which surfaces the conical rollers C and (l are received and held in angular relations, all in the custonmry i'nannei' and so as to provide :mti-lrictioual support for the radial pressure upon the hearing. The roll rrs (l and C also have angularly inclined or (.OllltfillllY Formed crowns or ends (1' and c, whirh are designed to take the and thrust. 'lhe rollers (l and are held in proper position by means of a cage 1) provided with separating arms D, l'), which are located longitudinally hotwren the res 'iective rollers at suitable intervals for the purpose mentioned. lhr rage It) is 211M) provided with a lranswrso portion or element 1)". which is interposed lielween the lower portions of the ends and oi. the respective sets oi rollers C and C, as shown in Fig. The ends of the rollers roll and abut agraii'ist the element 1). which thus serves to resist or transmit the end thrust of the rollers from one set thereol to the other. l: thus avoid the direct impingement of the roller ends against each other, together with the defects and nlJjQCtiOlls arising in such arrangement.

in addition I provide the outer casing n'iemher sections A and A. with abutting surfarrs a, of, with which the upper portions of the nds at the rollers contact, whereby the end thrust is borne or trancmitted partly by the interposed care ele-l ment D and partly by the casing member. 1 The main advantage of this nrrnngement! is that the inward lhrnst's are partly taken .5 up by nbutnients formed in the sznne n'iei'nher 3 l0 skilled in the art and as before stated I do 15 scope.

applying: the thrusts, and there is, therefore, no tendency of the end thrusts to sepn-rate the casing members. These and many other 5 mriations will suggest themselves to those not limit myself to ihe exact embodiment of the invention shown, Whiclf l. have illustrated only in preferred form, as many equivalents ar clearly comprised Within its or element interposed between the ends of the respective sets of rollers and one of the casing members being formed with abutments for the ends of the rollers, so that the end thrust thereof is received partly by the interposed cage element and partly by the casing member.

in a roller bearing, the combination of easing members nd two sets of rollers inter posed therebetween and formed with angulnrly-inelined ends, together with a cage tlwrefor the said cage being provided With a portion 01- abntment interposed between the ends of the respective sets of rollers, and one of the casing members being formed with "abutments for the ends of the rollers,

so that the end thrust thereof is received partly by the-interposed cage element and partly by the casing member.

in testimony whereof l have Z'tll'lXGd my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY HESS. Witnesses Nn'r'ri r: L. Him N MARY MGCALLA. 

